The President Took a Picture Today

Was the President's selfie bad for America? Better question: Have you gone outside recently? Have you considered the thoughts of others?

Are you enjoying your daily feed of outrage from the Twitter trough, folks of the white collar petting zoo?

The President took a picture with two world leaders today on the phone of the Danish Prime Minister and now you won't hear about a single important issue that is going on in the world for the next 24 hours. And you deserve every second of it, each and every one of you.

We have turned the greatest tool in the world for instant information and the democracy of thought into a way to feed America's grandparents a mild dose of adrenalin so they can get their heart rate up without exercising.

We hate each other. We hate all of those around us who aren't within our current line of sight at any given time. We have the technology to not hate each other. That technology is called "the benefit of the doubt," and we've had it forever. We've chosen to ignore it -- moreso recently, even, which seems counterintuitive to this beautiful tool we've abused beyond all reasonable comprehension.

The President took a picture today.

Get over it, people. Get over the Internet. Go outside. Get off this website. Make friends. Meet them in a bar. Buy someone you love something warm or nice to drink. Go to the park. Breathe in the air. Take in the outside. Look at the tiny flying things in the sky and wonder how they sing a song without overanalyzing every action, without eating each other alive. Watch how they eat only for sustenance, how they hoard only for others. Find a friend. Go to the beach, in the cold. Pick up a real thin rock at low tide and watch it skip, skip, skip and then descend. Watch your friend do it. Think about how satisfying it is, watching it float like that in between hops, then how silly it is that we do anything at all. Look over to your friend and watch him skip that fucker, satisfied, and forgive.